Cher on ageing, family life, and making it work with 40-years younger boyfriend
05.12.2023 - 08:11
/ ok.co.uk
“Ok, will someone PLEASE tell me… when will I feel old? This is ridiculous, I keep hearing these numbers, but I honestly can’t understand them,” tweeted pop superstar Cher, when she turned 77 in May. And as she chats to OK! about her new album, family festivities and her Christmas memories, we’re just as dumbfounded. She may tell us she is “cranky and teary because I’ve been working really hard” but she’s a funny, feisty ball of energy.
Talking about ageing in the public eye, she tells us, “With men, it doesn’t seem to matter nearly as much as it does for women. You see men in films and they’re craggy-faced and they’re old, but no one seems to mind it, but you didn’t see women like that. But now women are able to get older and still be relevant.
“You just had this sell-by date - it really didn’t matter what kind of person you were. I mean, it helped if you looked better, but women lost their value starting at a certain age, which is kind of bullsh*t.” Born (Cherilyn Sarkisian) in California in 1946, the star has always been a force of nature, as her late mother, the actress and singer Georgia Holt knew all too well. “When I was nine years old, I decided I was going to run away from school,” she remembers.
“I talked my friend into going on a journey, like going on an adventure, and we hopped on a freight train. I had no idea where I was going. I’d thrown my lunchbox away, which my mom was more angry about than anything else, and then we just rode this train until my friend started crying because it got dark.